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Meagan Day | Bernie Sanders Is the Strongest Candidate to Beat Donald Trump
Meagan Day, Jacobin
Day writes: "When I talk to Democrats about the presidential primary, I hear the same thing over and over: 'I'll vote for whoever I think can beat Donald Trump.' Fair enough."
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Meagan Day, Jacobin
Day writes: "When I talk to Democrats about the presidential primary, I hear the same thing over and over: 'I'll vote for whoever I think can beat Donald Trump.' Fair enough."
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
US House Panel to Vote on Parameters for Trump Impeachment Probe
Kyle Cheney, Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan, Politico
Excerpt: "The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to take its first formal vote to define what Chairman Jerry Nadler calls an ongoing 'impeachment investigation' of President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources briefed on the discussions."
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Kyle Cheney, Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan, Politico
Excerpt: "The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to take its first formal vote to define what Chairman Jerry Nadler calls an ongoing 'impeachment investigation' of President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources briefed on the discussions."
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Jose Segovia Benitez, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, is being detained in an ICE facility. (photo: Damon Casarez/Guardian UK)
'I Refuse to Die in Here': The Marine Who Survived Two Tours and Is Now Fighting Deportation
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Jose Segovia Benitez survived two tours of duty with the US Marine Corps, a bomb blast, and a traumatic brain injury. But the US is not helping him recover. On the contrary, the government may be leading him to his death."
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Jose Segovia Benitez survived two tours of duty with the US Marine Corps, a bomb blast, and a traumatic brain injury. But the US is not helping him recover. On the contrary, the government may be leading him to his death."
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Segovia is currently imprisoned at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in Adelanto, California where he says he is being denied critical medical and mental health care. The 38-year-old veteran is facing deportation to El Salvador, a country he left when he was three years old and where his loved ones fear he could be killed.
During his 21 months of detention in the southern California facility, Ice has failed to provide adequate care for Segovia’s serious heart condition, denied him proper treatment for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and repeatedly placed him in isolation, according to the former marine and his lawyers. The consequences, they fear, could be fatal.
Segovia is one of fifteen current detainees who filed a federal lawsuit against Ice last month alleging medical neglect and horrific conditions that rise to the level of “torture”. He is also one of the estimated thousands of veterans who have faced deportation over the years despite their service to the country.
Life after war: ‘I tried to seek help’
Segovia, who became a legal permanent resident soon after arriving in the US as a child, became interested in the military at a very young age.
Ice says it doesn’t know how many veterans it has deported, but groups that assist deported veterans have tracked roughly 400 cases since 2014. Advocates estimate there are likely thousands.
Geo Group, the private prison company that runs the jail, has repeatedly been accused of abuse and neglect. Last year, a US government audit found there were “nooses” made out of bedsheets in 15 cells, which guards overlooked even though someone had died by suicide in 2017. That year, three detainees died within three months, and there were reports of at least five suicide attempts.
Guards also improperly shackled detainees and placed them in solitary confinement and failed to provide adequate medical care, the audit said.
“These people don’t know how to treat combat stress veterans,” Segovia said. “It’s a slap in the face. I’ve been in a downward spiral of depression.”
He has been isolated in segregation multiple times, typically for three to five days, during which time he did not receive daily medical or mental health check-ins, according to the recent lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Advocates and other groups.
He has repeatedly complained of chest pain, dizziness and other heart problems, but has been denied timely care, the suit said. Lawyers alleged that the facility “entirely ignored” multiple abnormal cardiology test results, and that on 3 July, after he reported significant chest pain, he wasn’t evaluated for seven hours. At that point, the facility called 911 and took him to emergency care.
Campaign signs are seen outside a polling station on the last day of early voting in Dallas, Texas, in 2018. (photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)
Texas Is Changing Quickly
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic
Brownstein writes: "The fundamental force that has shaken the GOP's hold on Texas is that for the first time in decades, voters there are behaving in patterns familiar from other states."
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Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic
Brownstein writes: "The fundamental force that has shaken the GOP's hold on Texas is that for the first time in decades, voters there are behaving in patterns familiar from other states."
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Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)
Homeland Security to Collect Social Media Usernames on Immigration and Visitor Applications
Geneva Sands, CNN
Sands writes: "The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin requesting social media information on applications for immigration benefits and foreign travel to the US, an expansion of data collection already taking place."
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Geneva Sands, CNN
Sands writes: "The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin requesting social media information on applications for immigration benefits and foreign travel to the US, an expansion of data collection already taking place."
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Recovering belongings from a destroyed home in Marsh Harbour, in the Abaco Islands, on Friday. (photo: Daniele Volpe/NYT
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Climate Colonialism: The Picture of Dorian's Graves
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Hurricane Dorian devastated parts of the Bahamas, laying waste to much of the islands of Grand Bahama and Abacos."
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Hurricane Dorian devastated parts of the Bahamas, laying waste to much of the islands of Grand Bahama and Abacos."
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Wild horses in North Carolina. (photo: iStock)
Wild Horses Will Ride Out the Hurricane as They Have for Centuries, With 'Butts to the Wind'
Alex Horton, The Washington Post
Horton writes: "It's not their first rodeo, said Meg Puckett, the nonprofit's herd manager. The wild horses instinctually seek cover in wooded high grounds, standing in tight circles with their butts out like a reverse phalanx."
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Alex Horton, The Washington Post
Horton writes: "It's not their first rodeo, said Meg Puckett, the nonprofit's herd manager. The wild horses instinctually seek cover in wooded high grounds, standing in tight circles with their butts out like a reverse phalanx."
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